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Lebanese in Motion

Gender and the Making of a Translocal Village

Anja Peleikis (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

210 Seiten

2003
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978-3-933127-45-7 (ISBN)

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The study is based on the observation that unidirectional movements are becoming less and less characteristic of South Lebanese migration to West Africa. The new patterns of movement can be understood as elements of a translocal space. One central finding of the research is that, within this space, the mutual relationships of social actors take place with reference to their village of origin.

Globalisation and transnational migration have altered people's understanding of as well as their relationship to their »dwelling places« and »places of origin«. Taking the empirical case of the South Lebanese Shi'ite village of Zrariye and its migrant population in Abidjan/Côte d'Ivoire, the book shows how »place«, which has become a vital political, economic and social resource, continues to be of tremendous significance in the age of mobility and change. »Lebanese in Motion« explores how villagers »at home« and »abroad« are involved in producing a »translocal village-in-the-making«, which emanates as a social field through their practices and narratives. Travel and the means of communication make it possible to keep in constant touch and thus renegotiate kinship, generational and gender relationships beyond local, regional and nation-state boundaries. Particularly interested in understanding how female identities are redefined, the study delineates how gender and place are mutually constituted in the translocal village under study.

Anja Peleikis is a postdoctoral research fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle/Saale, Germany. Having worked on Lebanese transnational migration and mixed Christian/Muslim localities in the context of civil war and displacement, she has recently switched her regional focus from the Middle East to Eastern Europe, concentrating on questions of place, memory and legal pluralism in the Curonian Lagoon Region of Lithuania.

»Die Dissertation [...] stellt einen gelungenen Versuch dar, sich den theoretisch-methodischen Herausforderungen auf dem Gebiet der 'transnationalen' Forschung zu stellen und aus reichhaltigem empirischen Material ein spannendes Narrativ zu entwickeln.« Barbara Lüthi, H-Net, Clio-online, 11 (2006)

»Die Dissertation [...] stellt einen gelungenen Versuch dar, sich den theoretisch-methodischen Herausforderungen auf dem Gebiet der ›transnationalen‹ Forschung zu stellen und aus reichhaltigem empirischen Material ein spannendes Narrativ zu entwickeln.«

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.7.2003
Reihe/Serie	Kultur und soziale Praxis
Verlagsort	Bielefeld
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 225 mm
Gewicht	327 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Völkerkunde (Naturvölker)
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
Schlagworte	Ethnology • Gender • Gender Studies • Globalisation • Globalisierung • Libanon; Politik/Zeitgesch. • Migration • Migration/Borderlands • Migration / Migrant
ISBN-10	3-933127-45-9 / 3933127459
ISBN-13	978-3-933127-45-7 / 9783933127457
Zustand	Neuware